Friedrich Merz jets to Belgium to secure frozen Russian assets plan

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is making a last-ditch bid to secure crucial Belgian support for an EU plan to use frozen Russian sovereign assets to fund European military aid to Ukraine. Merz will ...

Merz urgently goes to Brussels for a crisis dinner with the Prime Minister of Belgium for Russia's assets

EADaily, December 4th, 2025. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz postponed his planned trip to Norway and at the last moment ...
Euronews

Friedrich Merz rules out permanent joint debt at EU level in his visit to Brussels

"We cannot go into never-ending spirals of debt," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said during his first official visit to Brussels. Friedrich Merz, the new federal chancellor of Germany, brought an ...
Politico Europe

Friedrich Merz challenges Ursula von der Leyen for Europe’s crown

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission president six years ago. And it won’t come from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. It will ...

Friedrich Merz will meet Belgian prime minister to unblock reparations loan

The crisis meeting between the German chancellor and the Belgian premier is aimed at unblocking the reparations loan to ...